I’ve been watching Fran Lebowitz on NETFLIX, listening to Colin Jost on Audible, and reading The Order of the Day.

The first two, big fun.

The third, in the words of the BBC: “Extraordinary, disturbingly relevant.”

(“. . . Goering had had it up to here with those stupid Austrians.  Why couldn’t […]

FOURTH QUARTERLY ESTIMATED TAX DUE TODAY

(unless you’ll be filing your return, with any balance due, by February 1)

INSURRECTION

This piece argues that what Republicans did shortly after the insurrection was worse:

. . . The 139 representatives and eight senators who voted to reject the […]

. . . as history scarily unfolds, the future could be so bright.

Two recent examples:

mRNA Vaccines Could Vanquish Covid Today, Cancer Tomorrow.  And other diseases as well.

Battery storage is going mainstream, big-time.  Which makes solar and wind all the more practical.

This is big stuff!

Yes, the journalist-murderers have been […]

But first . . .

Whoever sent this hurtling around social media made, I think, a helpful point:

Huge numbers of our population believe in a complete alternate reality. Alternate facts as it were. But just as intensely as I believe they are deluded, they think I am the one who is deluded. Maybe I […]

“The storming of the Capitol in Washington is a wake-up call for states around the world, writes the mayor of London.”

. . . Many around the world have long warned that it could end this way, or worse. Trump followed the playbook of the fascist dictators and strongmen that came to power […]

But first . . .

You simply must watch this.

It will uplift, make clear, and reassure.

Three cheers for Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Also . . .

The “West Wing Reunion” on HBO Max reminds us what America should be.

It’s interrupted not by commercials for auto insurance but by exhortations to vote.*

Given […]

“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they’ve been fooled.” — Mark Twain

Ain’t it the truth.

The people who stormed the Capitol thought they were doing a good thing.

It’s not they who bear most of the blame; it’s those who fooled them.

If following the wishes of your country’s elected leader […]

. . . what a second term might have been like.

. . . how massive and brutal yesterday’s response would have been if the insurrectionists had been black.

. . . that Congress impeaches, convicts, and removes Trump this morning before he can invoke the Insurrection Act or God knows what else.  Can they possibly […]

George Will does not write at an eight-grade level (my favorite level — Tom Sawyer!  Robinson Crusoe!  To Kill A Mockingbird!) but his columns are always worth the effort.

Halfway through this one, he offers a 20-second video of the Vice President’s “canine devotion” to Trump that, Will archly notes, “is a sufficient Pence […]

If you failed to click yesterday’s “widely despised” Ted Cruz link and feel you deserve a little good old-fashioned Tuesday morning fun, click it now.

I owe you $5 because I failed to alert you to Jimmy Carter: Rock And Roll President that aired free on CNN Sunday night.

And now I want […]